Rob Mazurek’s Experimental Sound Studio Residency

During the first week of April ESS is pleased to present the multidisciplinary practice of ROB MAZUREK with the Chicago premiere of two solo installations—one in ESS’s Audible Gallery, the other in the Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room—as well as in a series of concerts.

OPTION: ROB MAZUREK
Monday, April 3, Doors at 7pm, Music at 7:30pm
ROB MAZUREK performs solo, and discusses his work with PETER MARGASAK as part of ESS’s weekly OPTION series curated by Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, and Andrew Clinkman. This performance is dedicated to Mary Elizabeth Ferraro.
$10 general / $8 students & ESS members / $5 OPTION subscribers

ROB MAZUREK WITH LOU MALLOZZI
Tuesday, April 4, Doors at 7pm, Music at 7:30pm
This is the second of three concerts in conjunction with Rob Mazurek’s exhibition The Shaping Light in Audible Gallery. The evening features ROB MAZUREK on piccolo trumpet, electronics, piano, bells and voice with LOU MALLOZZI on turntables, CDs, and mixer.
$10 general / $8 students & ESS members

ROB MAZUREK WITH AVREEAYL RA & DAMON LOCKS
Wednesday, April 5, Doors at 7pm, Music at 7:30pm
The third of three concerts in conjunction with Rob Mazurek’s exhibition The Shaping Light in Audible Gallery. The evening features ROB MAZUREK on piccolo trumpet, electronics, piano, bells and voice with AVREEAYL RA on drums, and DAMON LOCKS.
$10 general / $8 students & ESS members

The Shaping Light
March 31-May 7, 2017
Experimental Sound Studio’s Audible Gallery is pleased to present The Shaping Light, an exhibition of new visual works by Rob Mazurek. The Shaping Light is Mazurek’s first solo gallery exhibition in Chicago.

Psychotropic Electric Eel Dream IV
April 2 – June 30, 2017
What you hear in the Fern Room is Psychotropic Electric Eel Dream IV by composer, musician, and visual artist Rob Mazurek. The sounds in this composition were generated by electric eels at the National Institute of Research and Technology in Manaus, Brazil. Mazurek recorded them between 2000 and 2008, and has since used them in several music compositions, recordings, and installations. In this iteration of the work, he combines them with analog synthesis to create an undulating and radiant sonic texture. By placing the sounds in loudspeakers overhead, our typical relationship to the eels is reversed: they are above us, not underwater, and we can imagine ourselves submerged.